On the second day of our road trip, we stopped at a place called Parrain’s in Baton Rouge for lunch.
Then our credit cards were frozen (which we discovered while trying to pick up an expensive refill at the pharmacy), and we went to New Orleans and got stuck in traffic from the Saints game. On a brighter note, we also got to eat dinner at Emeril’s, which has been a dream of mine since I was 15 (it was my English teacher’s favorite restaurant, and she took her mother there every year for her birthday).
Our cop car count was 3, which was surprising given that we were in New Orleans on New Year’s Day and game day…
I had a great seafood chowder (one of my favorite chowders ever) and a very good sorghum-glazed duck breast. Mom loved the yellowfin tuna salad, which was composed of butter lettuce leaves, sushi tuna chunks, shaved radish and a garlic sauce. It’s a good thing she didn’t know the tuna was going to be raw, otherwise she wouldn’t have ordered it!
